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Dual Monitors
I have a Kona LH card and want to run two video monitors. None of them have component out, just in. If I split the signal, will I loose image quality. If not, can I just use any splitter, or is there a prefered part to do a quality job.
Thanks
Mike
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[Mike Allen] “If I split the signal, will I loose image quality. If not, can I just use any splitter, or is there a prefered part to do a quality job.”
If you don’t use a broadcast quality router, you will lose quality and you will lose quality in a hurry. Simply using a BNC splitter will cause major loss of chroma on both feeds. The cheapest way to do this is actually purchase a pro monitor with video pass through. Like the Sony PVM14L5/1 which pass through Component beautifully. We use that to pass the video through to our plasma screens.
A good quality router will probably cost much more than that monitor.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Mike –
you need a component video DA, or like walter said – a monitor with looping inputs (like the sony PVM) or a router to send the signals to the 2 component inputs. If you have zero money, go find a component TV DA from somewhere like Parts Express on the web (this is the wrong thing to do, but you can get away with it). If you use Y cables (or BNC T connectors), you will DOUBLE TERMINATE the signal, and you will get have the level, and HALF THE SYNC, and the picture may not lock up to your monitors. Video ain’t audio, you just can’t split it, as monitors without looping inputs (all consumer TV’s) have terminating inputs – you MUST use a distribution amplifier to split this feed.Bob Zelin
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listen Mike, this is what you are going to do. You call MCM at
800 543 5440, and get the CE Labs component Video Distribution amplifier for $87. It’s all RCA connectors, but it will do what you want. Part # 33-7050. If $87 is too much money to do this job, then I will have to run you over with my car.Bob Zelin
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[Bob Zelin] “If $87 is too much money to do this job, then I will have to run you over with my car.”
Oh S–t Mike, Pay the money…. PAY THE MONEY!!!!!!!!
And nice find Bob. Never heard of a component router so cheap. I could actually use a few of those here. Thanks!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Cool company here, too. Not THAT cheap, but good quality in small form factor. I have a 6 output component DA and it works terrifically.
KW
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Thanks Bob, this is exactly what I needed to know.
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Hi Im looking for a signal splitter and the one Bob suggested could indeed be interesting. But this thread is from 2006 so it must have come some new splitters. Anybody here using one relative cheap splitter with good results?
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